Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-03
PACIFIC COAST.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A LADY in
NEVADA COUNTY.
Fast Time at Stockton-Gunning Ac-
cident-Creighton Convicted
Oregon Railroads.&c..
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THR REooR ,-usIoN.
BLOOD OF THE MOON"
A New and Startling Phase of the Sharon
Hill Scandal.


A New and Startling Phase of the Sharon
Hill Scandal.
SAN Francisco, October 2d.-The chief
topic OF discussion in this cityis bomb shell
thrown into Court circles by David s. Terry,
counsel for land present husband of Sarah
Althea Hill, who sued William Sharon for
divorce, and whose Judgment for alimony
is still before the Courts. On Friday last
Terry filed his brief in the case, in which
occurred the following statement:
If followed the example of the counsel ana
spoke from information derived from sources
other than the record, could say that the dying
declaration of man who sent to the Judge who
tried this case, by the hand OF one of his coun-
sci ian ex.Judge) a check duly signed, with the
amount LETT blank, to be filled in by the Judge
Ut he could be tempted to accept a bride) with
such sum as he chose, as a consideration for de-
Gliding this case in his favor, ought to have no
weight with an honest man, and certainly the
statement in the brief of counsel as to the de-
clslon OF the Court in this case. Respectfully
d. S. TERRY.
EX-JUDGE EVANS POINTED OUT.
The counsel in the Sharon case were, as
is well-known, General w. H. L. Barnes
ex-Judge o. P. Evans, II. |. Kowalsky and
Senator w. NJ. Stewart. Consequently the
charge made by Terry could apply only to
ex-Judge Evans, q man who enjoys an en-
viable reputation in the community for
judicial purity and honesty as lawyer and
citizen.
Immediately upon being informed of the
filing of such a charge, Judge Evans wrote
to Judge Sullivan lin whose Court the case
was tried), asking him 10 state whether or
or not such thing occurred.
JUDGE sULLIvAN's REPLY.
Judge Sullivan replied as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, September 80, 1887.
c. p. Evdns. ESq.-DEAR SIR: Yours of even
date herewith has reached me. In your letter
you referred to a statement in the brief of coun-
sci for respondent, intimating that an Ex-
Judge" had made certain propositions to me in
connection with the decision of the Sharon
case, and you further say that this reference
apparently points to You. You request from me
Il statement in connection with the matter.
In accordance with your request | desire to
say in justice to you that no proposition on the
subject indicated in your quotation from the
brief was ever made by you to me. Yours re-
spectfully, J. +. SULLIVAN.
JUDGE SULLIVAN INTERVIEWED.
Last night a reporter interviewed Judge
Sullivan in regard to the matter, and he
said: Il must decline to answer that
question, because l consider that it is the
more dignified course for me to be non
comnittal, for the present, at least"
The reporter then asked: did Judge
ing toward bribery, either directly or in
directly ?"
No" was the reply, judge Evans
made no proposition of that nature to me,
but must decline saying anything more
explicit on the subject at present"
Do you expect that any trouble will re-
suit between the two counsel in this case ?"
was the next question.
That | cannot say nor should like to
say what may be the outcome of the mat
ter. | don't think it would be right of me
to say anything further in the premises" :"
WHAT GENERAL BARNES SAYS.
General Barnes. Sharon's leading coun-
sci, was seen at a late hour last night and
interrogated in reference to the matter. He
replied that it was "one of the most
atrocious and dastardly attacks ever made
upon the character of any man. The state
ment is false on the face of it. No man who
was sane would put himself in the power
of anybody as Sharon would have done
had that check ever been presented to
Judge Sullivan, and Mr.. Sharon was too
shrewd a man to be guilty of anything of
the kind" General Barnes spoke with
much feeling, denouncing the charge as a
bare faced falsehooG, whoever the real
author might be. He said:
But do not think that Judge Terry. from
what know Of his character, would make an
assertion of so grave nature without having
some reason for believing 1t true in some par
ticularS. Judge Sullivan has placed himself in
Il very warm position between two dangerous
men. He either did give the inference TO Terry
that caused Terry to assert it as he did or Terry
manufactured it out of whole cloth. 1t will be
found out shortly who is the liar in the case.
and Ieiterate what l said before about Judge
Terry, that although not at all on friendly terms
with him, must do him the justice to say do
moi inL ha fac
kind.
This thing is nothing more than part of
the perjury, forgery ard subornation that was
part and parcel of their case from the COM
mencement and what l say now am person
ally responsible for. Judge Evans character
stands too high to be blasted at once by such a
foul blow without having the fullest investi-
CATION of the charges, and his friends and the
bar of the State will look to him for his vindi-
cation, and any one that knows him also knows
that he will not be idle moment until he nails
the infamous lie to the door where it belongs
KowALsKY INDIGNANT.
H. I. Kowalsky, an associate of Judge
Evans and General Barnes in. the case. stig-
matizes the allegation as the last effort of
desperate man playing desperate game,
who, seeing his prey slipping from the tolls
he has woven FOR it, makes one last effort
to accomplish his object, not stopping to
choose his means" He denounces it as
" one of the most patent and bare-faced lies
ever uttered by lips" and declared that
" those who knew Judge Evans will never
be influenced by black hearted lie like
that"
SERIOUS MATTER.
The question is, did Terry manufacture
the thing out of whole cloth, or was he SIM
ply mistaken as to the source of the alleged
attempt tatssorruption? And in either case,
from whom could he have received his in
formation, if not from Judge Sullivan him
self2 The whole matter, owing to the
prominence of the parties concerned in it,
has become the sensation of the hour, and
duels are already hinted at What the
outcome will be can only be surmised but
that somebody's name must go down in
shame to oblivion, there can be little doubt.
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